1. Dunkirk Primary School Helping your child learn to read

2. What is Phonics? The relationships between letters (graphemes) and sounds (phonemes)

3. phonics is skills of segmentation and blending Knowing about letters and sounds +

4. Words your child will use phoneme The sounds that make up a word.

5. Words your child will use grapheme Letter(s) written to show the sounds in a word. taiigh

6. Phonemes and Graphemes A grapheme may consist of one (t), two (kn) or more letters (igh) A phoneme can be represented/spelled in more than one way cat, kennel, choir The same grapheme may represent more than one phoneme me, met

7. Pure Sounds DVD

8. Some Definitions segmenting Identifying the individual sounds in a spoken word h-i-ms-t-or-k and writing down or manipulating letters for each sound (phoneme) to form himstork

9. Some Definitions blending Recognising the letter-sounds in a written word, for example c-u-p, sh-ee-p and merging or synthesising them in the order in which they are written to pronounce the word cup, sheep.

10. Some Definitions split digraph A digraph in which the two letters are not adjacent. makerosechute

11. rainbright witchdaughter Sound Buttons

12. rainbright witchdaughter Sound Buttons

13. Games to do at home Sound buttons Silly voices Flash cards Chew it up/pull it out Hunt the sound in the book Have a look at the school website

14. Reading is all around

15. Glossary Phoneme-each sound in a word Grapheme-letters to show each sound Blending-joining each sound together to make a word Segmenting-breaking up a word into each sounds Split digraph-a long sound that is split by another letter Tricky words-words that don’t follow sound rules

16. Reading in school Phonics learning sessions Guided reading Modelled reading Class books to share Independent reading Book club Book assemblies Reading records